- Cookie: When your mother was 8 years old, she decided to start a squirrel circus, so she went out and brought home three squirrels, and let me tell you our dog was not on board with the idea, but for that matter, neither were the squirrels.
- Tammy Diffendorf: So, Cookie hasn't been taking care of herself and now her body is rejecting the kidney.
- Bonnie Plunkett: Oh my God!
- Cookie: Tammy tells me you and Christy have traveled all over the world.
- Bonnie Plunkett: More like running, hiding, living under fake names. It was like Thelma & Louise except that Louise was 6 and Thelma was always drunk and forgetting where she put Louise.
- Tammy Diffendorf: [after Cookie's body rejects her kidney] I'm so mad at myself, and at her...
- Bonnie Plunkett: Well that's natural.
- Tammy Diffendorf: And you!
- Bonnie Plunkett: Why me?
- Tammy Diffendorf: For being right!
- Bonnie Plunkett: Oh well that's okay.
- Tammy Diffendorf: But mostly I'm angry at myself.
- Bonnie Plunkett: [sharing at AA] You know how in here, we say if someone's behavior annoys you, it's because it's a reflection of your own behavior? Well there's some truth in that. Back in the day, I made a lot of promises to people, and at the time I had every intention of keeping them, it's not that I lied, my therapist said it's because I'm a narcissist, which I think is a mean thing to say about someone who just gets caught up in the moment a lot.
- [looks at Tammy]
- Bonnie Plunkett: But it would be crazy for the person I hurt to blame themselves for it, because it absolutely has nothing to do with them.